Example sentences of "[noun] just [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There 's a marvellous moment of stasis just before the final presto of this first movement ( a riveting tenuto E natural in the violins ) , while the finale is particularly notable for the rapture of its luminous string transformation ( dolcissimo ) in the central maestoso ) .
2 The defendant struck with the knife into her throat on the left-hand side just near the jugular vein , with such force that it severed the spinal cord , causing almost instant paralysis .
3 The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength , and more strength he had just summoned , into the fish 's side just behind the great chest fill that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man 's chest .
4 Above : This practical Premiere sun-lounger from M & P Leisure has adjustable backrest and seat positions , wheels to help move it around easily and a drinks tray just below the armrest .
5 The first one came out of a mouth just under the right epaulette .
6 These match sequences just inside the two original primer sites .
7 McCourt said Royal Gait was cruising turning into the home straight , but began to lose his action just before the final flight .
8 No lights came on when they tried the switch just inside the heavy oak door , but a minute 's search with a flashlight found the main fusebox further in along the wall .
9 Texans expecting something equally outré must have been disappointed by Desert of Roses : a treatment of the Beauty and the Beast legend set in Texas just after the American Civil War , the piece is essentially a rather sugary Broadway musical with minimalist frosting on the score .
10 Tokyo : Index-linked buying just before the close drove prices up and enabled the Nikkei average to end with a gain of 140.19 points at 35,522.99 .
11 She always slings my card just at the wrong time .
12 We 've come to do Merry Monk , an HVS at its left-hand end which requires us to traverse carefully along its base just above the slow-moving water , grasping strange iron spikes driven into the rock .
13 His rooms were in the original college , the Ghazi-ud-Din Medresse , a seventeenth-century Mughal building just outside the Ajmeri Gate .
14 More than a billion for the A90 complex , and he had heard , and he believed it , that there was £35 million of money just for the new fencing and perimeter security equipment … money for that , money no object for the bloody contractors .
15 After a brief stay there , we move south-west into the ubiquitous rural ocean until we arrive at a remarkable experimental settlement just off the main road between Kharkov and Poltava .
16 De Nooijer 's work here was commissioned by Borek Sipek , who left Czechoslovakia just after the Russian invasion of 1968 and is now based , with a studio of six designers , in Amsterdam .
17 However , he got better results in his own TV film , The Ewok Adventure ( aka Caravan of Courage , 1984 ) , which he produced for Lucas , by shooting some action sequences with most of the picture area on the negative blocked off , then — working from a test strip just before the main action — matching the matte painting to the unexposed area and finally compositing action and painting together .
18 Certainly economic considerations were supreme and just as it did not make sense to build cinemas just for the rich so it would have been crazy to make films just for the religious , the doctrinaire , and the intellectual .
19 Poiana Brasov is a skier 's oasis in Romania just like the small glass balls that you turn upside down and watch the snow fall on the perfect setting .
20 Funny Man is the competition and we have a new pre-release video as a prize and there 's a phone-in and you can take part and have a chat on the air Afternoon Special this afternoon just after the two o'clock news .
21 There is a useful deep bin stowage on each side of the berth , a large hanging locker and comfortable small settee just inside the sliding cabin door .
22 P C Critchley on his old bike just like the dead officer , seems from another age , far from the violence of modern London .
23 When the referee talks to the two boxers just before the first round , each fighter stares closely and directly into the opponent 's eyes .
24 He keeps his liquor just on the other side of the room , but catch him actually dishing it out himself .
25 In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them .
26 Delivered in 1925 No 4 completed her trials just before the General Strike of 1926 and was laid up until 1927 .
27 As Ross came to a halt just inside the open french windows , their silk curtains billowing softly in the light breeze , the dark evening sky outside provided a dramatic background to his tall , broad-shouldered figure .
28 Spurs ' best effort in the first period was a 25-yard shot from Gray just beyond the far post , though Samways tested Rees with a low effort from the left .
29 John Ellis of Hanmer ( a small village just across the Welsh border ) was presented at the manorial court in 1581 ‘ for erecting of one bay of a house upon the lords waste grounde in Myddle woode ’ .
30 Knocker had descended on the village just after the Great War at the tender age of twenty five .
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